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Example sentences for "green light"

  • Why, Dad, there's a green light burning in one of the windows!

  • There's no green light," he answered grimly.

  • When special meetings are held, a green light burns on the tower, or the clock strikes thirteen times just at midnight.

  • Green light emitted by the lamp will indicate that the electrode holders are burning.

  • Similarly, the green screen will allow only green light to pass; and such parts of the objects as contain no green will not affect the emulsion.

  • The moonlight showed all the surrounding country, but nowhere was to be observed that tremulous line of green light.

  • The only thing I remember was a sort of green light--very clouded, very dim--which came up from the well.

  • Over the tops of them was seen a green light, something like the danger signal at a railway-crossing.

  • Again I press the right button; again a green light glows; again the machine swings towards the bridge.

  • A red and a green light glows in the mist at Nieuport and fades.

  • A green light glows in the cockpit, and, looking at the bomb-sight, I see that the machine is swinging towards the right.

  • In a few seconds she would know all; for whenever the Clansman was too late for her flag-signal to be easily seen, she showed a green light a foot or so beneath the yellow.

  • She has flown no flag, she has no green light at the mast.

  • Again an almost intolerably vivid flash of blue-green light, out of a dazzling flame that seemed to burst from the hills.

  • A green light if we won: if not, a red light, to warn the sloop away.

  • When the copper electrode is fused, a green light is always given off.

  • What should be done when a green light is seen?

  • By the fact, when copper is fused a shaft of green light will be thrown off instead of a shaft of white light.

  • They seemed carrying small hand-weapons from which phosphorescent-green light-beams flashed into the night.

  • Then it disclosed itself to be quite near--the reflection of green light from a bowl-like depression of this rocky plateau.

  • A red light is a signal to stop; a green light, to proceed cautiously; and a white light, to go a-head.

  • After dusk a red lamp shall be used in place of a flag (but a green light shall be momentarily shewn to the driver when the road is clear).

  • A sees a green light ahead, or on his bow.

  • Windows there were none, but each hut had an open door facing the source of the strange, blue-green light.

  • All, suspended by the cervical vertebrae, swayed lightly as the blue-green light glared on them with its weird, unearthly radiance.

  • Stern saw him vaguely through the drifting vapor by the blue-green light of the cresset at the bow.

  • Battery discharge is indicated by green light being on.

  • Green light is located on left side of instrument panel.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "green light" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    criminal matters; feet wide; green above; green cheese; green cloth; green eyes; green fields; green flame; green hair; green hill; green light; green meadows; green peas; green pepper; green peppers; green plants; green turf; green valley; green vegetables; greenhouse plant; greenish color; neighbouring town; projecting part; three sons; unless indeed; vegetable and animal life